NEW DELHI:
Within days of the clash, India, concerned over privacy and security threats, banned 59 Chinese apps including the popular TikTok, WeChat, UC Browser and Weibo among others resulting in huge losses for the companies. India also decided to bar Chinese tech giants– Huawei and ZTE to participate in the country’s 5G rollout.
“The apps were banned because of security threats but beyond that India has not taken any step which is not practical. It is true that New Delhi will remain watchful..that cannot be held against us,” an insider told India Narrative.
External affairs minister S. Jaishankar said that border tensions cannot be taken in isolation while continuing to co-operate with China in other areas.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a clarion call for making India Atmanirbhar and boost Make In India. Though Modi said that India must be the world’s factory and even manufacture for domestic market, the person pointed out that the government maintained that the country needed to be integrated in the global supply chain management.
“India has been importing raw materials and other critical goods from China, that has continued but again we must understand that boosting domestic manufacturing is beneficial to the country and is the need of the hour,” the person said.
But did the Galwan Valley incident bring India-China economic ties to a halt? No,
Since Galwan, India has shifted gears in terms of economic diplomacy with China.
On one hand India has strongly defended certain areas of economic engagements but on the other, has continued to deal with China. In a major decision, India also pulled out from the mega trade deal Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), driven by China primarily to protect its own manufacturing industry.
However New Delhi, which assumed a greater role on the global political stage with an unprecedented focus on the Indo Pacific region and a heightened pitch against Beijing back home, it has also carefully balanced its economic relations refraining from any knee jerk reaction against its populous neighbour.
Despite the rising tensions between the two neighbours and a clarion call to boycott China-made goods by the traders, China remained India’s largest trade partner in 2020. The two-way trade between the Asian giants stood at $77.7 billion, albeit lower than $85.5bn clocked in the previous year.
Notably, the Narendra Modi government revised its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy to bar any “opportunistic” takeover or acquisition in domestic companies by its neighbouring countries. But the announcement was made before the Galwan Valley incident. The move was aimed at protecting domestic companies from hostile takeovers amid dropping valuations due to the Covid 19 pandemic. “The decision was the need of the hour as there have been instances of hostile takeovers by foreign companies amid the Covid induced financial stress, it was not linked to Galwan, contrary to the narrative,” the person said.
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